| Eke | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Eked p. pr. & vb. n. Eking. ] [ AS. ēkan, &ymacr_;kan; akin to OFries. āka, OS. ōkian, OHG. ouhhōn to add, Icel. auka to increase, Sw. öka, Dan. öge, Goth. aukan, L. augere, Skr. ōjas strength, ugra mighty, and probably to English wax, v. i. Cf. Augment, Nickname. ] To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other. “To eke my pain.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ] He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Eke | adv. [ AS. eác; akin to OFries. ák, OS. &unr_;k, D. &unr_;ok, OHG. ouh, G. auch, Icel. auk, Sw. och and, Dan. og, Goth. auk for, but. Prob. from the preceding verb. ] In addition; also; likewise. [ Obs. or Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ] 'T will be prodigious hard to prove
That this is eke the throne of love. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ] A trainband captain eke was he
Of famous London town. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ Eke serves less to unite than to render prominent a subjoined more important sentence or notion. Mätzner. [ 1913 Webster ] |
